New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-10-01

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boat had a free way from that out
BRIEF GLIMPSE or THE sun.
The Say had been clearing gradually in the east and
the wind held as fresh OF Rockawsy the sun
came out for few minutes and tbe Lsas Island
shore grew plain the whole length
to Long Beach. off which tho stakeboat lay. The wind
changed little to the southeast after tho frat tack ana
q squan was threatened. The sun went behind the
clouds stay aud the - the was made Under
Wiling heaven The Volunteer had easily outpointed
the scotchman ana was nearly mile
ahead at this point. The course ran TO tho
southeast right In the face O., .n OF IN. tns
Ss aad the s
against their bows Thu was che weather the cutter
thought to be best In bu, she Lost ground constantly
Wssr than the voluni.srs. though tho sleop
" 9oS ans .oI e to
Even the BIZ steamboats, pitched and tossed ana
nasty sea as thursday s. and the of it only
the southeast tacss Tho yachts fortunately naa 70
seas running against the sides Of BOATS not on their
bows the ears o yachting IN tho open came sfaauAy
Tho Thistle Il was noticed gained trfdc on these
tacks toward land and lost t all and moro on the sea-
ward The second in brought ths racers Just on
Long Beach Hotel the houses ON the shore sosing
like the haystacks on a coast marsh me volunteer
further and further ahead OF tho Scotch CHAM
pion. on the last tack ont she ran clos. TO the
boat The scotch people were standing In group on
the bridge watching tho Yankee dyer through their
friends took the prospect gurny The big yacht let the
Volunteer go by without santing her. The scotch
party had had enough apparently. lac Mohcan waited
twelve or fifteen minutes longer for the Thistle TO pas:
and then weighed anchor aud steamed Tor scotiand
The Iiiviand had been bobbing up and down AZ the
turning paint for hour or two before the uSs snc
steamers began 10 gather about her 10 sec the flying
volunteer round and for home The Electras gun
Wa he sigma for nTs SSss o, S and when the com
motion lullel. the band on tho Oliyette struck up
cOlumbis The Gem Of the Ocean at which all those VINO
The Thistle found lew boats near the Havand when
sops OF Catching the white soop But with
set the Volunteer ontran the wind the tali spsea u
The Thistle set her spnnakcr too going round and the
two clear easily OF every lug anu ,1rhtar
u aas riei and her spnnaker belly out
fully than the Volunteers me wina nS,a thesa
and the run In was tho fastest DIT VI "05A sce" IA ~
waters for some time
SPECTATORS HOLD THEIR BREATH.
The Volunteer at times looked In danger Of having
everything carried by the board The spnnakcr DOOM
would lift ten, twenty and even twenty-five degrees IN
the air and the lee rail sink ard plunge on the other side
On the Taisman the spectators held their breath ana
watched for the crash The soop was tearing through
tho water like racehorse, the crew oil back In the
stern apparently to hold her down. The Thistle was
coming up away behind under the sane spread of SAIL
but I'm tribe resner wind and half way In had to take
her spinnaksr In From that on It was quick race 70
Volunteer was a sure winner with the spinnakcr on
She would have won any way. perhaps, IL everything
except her mast had been carried away. - II,
The olivette and few other steamers were with the
e s p sr sna
what they could to celebrate the Victory TIC scotch
party on the Runyon lowered the red DRAGON or
but the Mohicsns party cheered the victor Inc 1rsns
fired and thu cheering was Kept up TOT Two
or three minutes. A., ,r,,.,
Many of the steamboats, did not wait for the Thistle
Tho cutter coming in With rusp however. aud the
suspense short The Clyde boat crossed amid CHEERS
OF co isolation from the boats still near the line me
cutter ran close In TO the old "WreeG OF scouanu
and pulled In sail. Her forosail drooped,
but the big mainsa carried her across the line sun
easy smooth and graceful proud az II she carried no
burden Of wrecked Scottish hopes. Twenty odn aose1
had been taken for the race Sha
were stacked up cabin. but bottles were broken
then and there. on tho way up. u.
The two yachts other the Narrows Tho
Thstls's CALAMITY CLEARED the volunteer ana ne
Volunteers men returned Tho graceful compliment inc
press boat offered tho cutter tow r put sno
Vile. the other to Bay Ridge. The nset
scattered in the mist hs Upper Bay The great race
Was over and the Gro wd went homo pnhed up vita r
uph at the idea that Scotch whisfey VIII % drunx
out of the ugly Americas yacht mug until next yoAr ~
lopSt.